cutting curtains in half & I just cant do the math!!!! Help Please!!!
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cutting curtains in half & I just cant do the math!!!! Help Please!!! Michelle Giordano 11-30-2008
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Posted by Michelle Giordano on November 30, 2008, 4:47 pm
I am re-doing a set of store bought curtains for my daycare provider
to fit some different windows.

The curtains are 83" long (width doesn't matter for this as I am
redoing them into shorter curtains).

So, they are 83" long including a top hem (to insert the curtain rod)
of 2.1/4" and including a bottom hem of 1". both hems are folded
under 1/4 inch but I counted this in the 83" and I measured twice.

So.... I thought if I measure up 40.5" from the bottom fold of the hem
that would make exactly half the length, and I could chop it off and
add the appropriate hems.

But... for some reason when I hold my tape measure where I want to cut
it, the other half seems so short that it just doesn't seem right.
Where could I be going wrong with my math? It seems pretty
elementary to me. Is it perhaps my eyes that are messed up?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by Michelle Giordano on November 30, 2008, 7:47 pm
wrote:
> I am re-doing a set of store bought curtains for my daycare provider
> to fit some different windows.

snip

> But... for some reason when I hold my tape measure where I want to cut
> it, the other half seems so short that it just doesn't seem right.
> Where could I be going wrong with my math? =A0 It seems pretty
> elementary to me. =A0Is it perhaps my eyes that are messed up?
>
> Thanks in advance!


I think that was much more than a blonde moment on my part, it was a
whole blonde hour! I wasn't accounting for the fact that 2.5" gets
folded under on the "new" half. I have them cut and ready to press &
sew...

Michelle

Posted by Judie in Penfield NY on November 30, 2008, 8:14 pm
Michelle Giordano wrote:
> wrote:
>> I am re-doing a set of store bought curtains for my daycare provider
>> to fit some different windows.
>
> snip
>
>> But... for some reason when I hold my tape measure where I want to cut
>> it, the other half seems so short that it just doesn't seem right.
>> Where could I be going wrong with my math? It seems pretty
>> elementary to me. Is it perhaps my eyes that are messed up?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> I think that was much more than a blonde moment on my part, it was a
> whole blonde hour! I wasn't accounting for the fact that 2.5" gets
> folded under on the "new" half. I have them cut and ready to press &
> sew...
>

Good for you, happy sewing!!!

Judie

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